Category Archives: books for young adults
On being inspired by writers
Last week I had lots of fun. I spent most of Thursday with Michael Wagner, author or the Maxx Rumble books as well as The Undys series of children’s books and listening to him speak to students in three of our libraries. He was entertaining, the kids loved him and to top it off he’s a really nice guy. Then on Thursday night, and all day Friday & Saturday I attended the Reading Matters conference put on by the lovely … Continue reading
The reformed vampire support group, by Catherine Jinks
Vampires are all beautiful right? And strong and fast and rich. Well, not always. Not in Catherine Jinks’s latest book, The reformed vampire support group. This book has a fundamental difference to the currently hot Twilight series. The vampires are not all super-handsome, super-strong, and super-rich. In fact, they are sick. They have a virus. They can’t go out during the day and struggle to lead normal lives. I guess you could say being a vampire sucks (sorry, couldn’t resist) … Continue reading
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Monster blood tattoo Facebook group
If you’re a fan of D. M. Cornish’s Monster blood tattoo series and also a Facebook user, you might be interested in the MBT Facebook group, Monster Blood Cult. If nothing else, pop over to see the effort someone has gone to in making an outfit just like Europe’s. If you don’t know who Europe is, then do yourself a favour and read the books. On the subject of MBT, in case you were wondering about book 3, Factotum, it’s … Continue reading
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Read a preview of Kathleen Duey’s Sacred scars.
I loved Skin hunger, the first book in Kathleen Duey’s series A resurrection of magic. I loved it so much that it won the Golden BookBoy award for 2008. Here’s what I had to say about it. The very exciting news is that Sacred scars, book two in the series, is due out in August this year. For my Australian readers, I’m still not sure about an Australian date. If you can’t wait until then, you can get a little … Continue reading
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Scott Westerfeld news – new book out this year and a Melbourne visit too
Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while may have picked up that I’m a bit of a Scott Westerfeld fan. Those of you who are also fans of the great man will be pleased to know (if you don’t read his blog yourself) that the first book in his new series, Leviathan will be out later this year. And in other wonderful news, Scott and Justine will be in Melbourne for the Melbourne Writer’s Festival … Continue reading
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Looking for Alaska, by John Green
And now is as good a time as any to say that she was beautiful. In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, when the burning cherry of the cigarette washed her face in pale red light. But even in the dark, I could see her eyes – fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that … Continue reading